Back in the summer of 2019, I wrote a draft on the ways tech companies were shaping life in our cities with something we tend to take for granted: maps.
Back in the summer of 2019, I wrote a draft on the ways tech companies were shaping life in our cities with something we tend to take for granted: maps.
As the Palisades and Eaton fires were still burning in January, a dizzying lineup of mostly male, mostly obscenely rich public figures made sweeping proclamations to rebuild that didn’t deliver.
We live in an era of TikTok commentary—often willfully (or even purposefully) misinformed—that simply isn’t meeting the moment because it’s all just words. Rebuilding LA needs a plan, an authority to take action, and that action. This commission laid all of that out very clearly. Time to ignore the loud, “obscenely rich public figures” and get some work done.
Design Engineers are well-positioned to step into the gap between product design and engineering and help close it from both sides.
The one in which I participate in the “blogging” chain letter that has been making the rounds in the indie web community.